This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

There's growing fascination with these naturally patterned dials that offer a touch of cosmic elegance and exclusivity ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

By comparison, the largest meteorite found in Estonia with the assistance of geologists and preserved in a museum weighs 621.5 grams. This substantial fragment resembles iron reduced from local bog ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite that crashed onto his front porch in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. The meteorite, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

The Takapō meteorite spent much of 2024 being pored over by geologists at the University of Otago. But the question of rightful ownership remains open because it was found on public land.

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...